> It's not the ventilation that was killing patients. It was the covid-19 that was killing patients. I'm not a professional with years of slinging the lingo. B

> It's not the ventilation that was killing patients. It was the covid-19 that was killing patients. I'm not a professional with years of slinging the lingo. But I think Kyle-Sidell's retweet of "Barotrauma is a real phenomenon" [0] implies [edit] that aggressive ventilation was actually what was killing people. Is it so unreasonable to propose that many of the prematurely-ventilated might have survived, if not for their ventilation? Wikipedia has a page about Barotrauma, which is damage to bodies caused by pressure differentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotrauma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotrauma Dr. @erikfreyrMD's earlier tweet said "I don't know where this dogma of 'intubate early' came from. Intubation is a death sentence. " [1] (emphasis added). [0] https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243775103071973376 https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243775103071973376 [1] https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243697159037259776 https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243697159037259776 [edit1: means -> implies]